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Emma Shacklock

Queen Elizabeth's hilarious retort to her own mother shows her childhood 'cheekiness' at its best

Queen Elizabeth II smiles as she arrives before the Opening of the Flanders' Fields Memorial Garden.

The late Queen was famous for having a dry sense of humour and quick wit, but what many people might not know is quite how cheeky she could be when she was a child too. Nowadays her great-grandson Prince Louis arguably holds the title of 'cheekiest royal', yet a new biography has detailed the mischievous Queen Elizabeth creating a "disco" with the lights.

Writing in The Queen: 100 Years, 100 Stories, Michelle Morgan recalls that the then-Princess cheekiness was "perhaps the most entertaining" of her personality traits "for the press and public at least". She mentions a moment featured in Anne Ring's official book about Elizabeth, where she "took it upon herself" to mess around with the lights and told off her own mother!

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